MTB seat post bottle cage attachment

[rello]

Hi

 

does anyone have any idea about how one could go about attching a bottle cage to a MTB seat post, like the cannodale/vredestein, team did to their bikes in the epic, is their a special mounting /cage etc?- thanks

[dirtrider]

Special cage , but it should be fairly easy to do the mod yourself !

[Aedon]

From what I heard they used cable ties to attach the bottle cage.

[Guest colonel]

I just got one today from Ghekko Cycles for R195 call them on 021 982 3446

[BMCfan]

give them a shout and if it is what u looking for i will go pick it up for you. You not looking for gloves as well?

[mrmed]

Can anyone post pics. I heard they lost their bottles most days? I want to do this too.

[dirtrider]

These things are more for the Triathlon dudes . Donno the reason behind it but definitly not to keep your bottles in place .

[JasonW]

I reckon just using some velcro straps and a normal cage would be the lightest and would probably work just as well.

[mrmed]

Yeah and then you have to swap bottles, I knowing my luck (and bike skills) I'll see my @ss!

[Lusky]

Profile Design, make a double bottle cage called the Aqua-rack that mounts to the seat post.  I have this on my Tri bike.  The fit is pretty snugg, so I recon they should hold while MTBing, provided you are not doing any major drop-offs or jumps.

 

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[jacostrydom]

This contraption works well on a roadbike but will not hold the bottles on a mountainbike. I use one on my MTB but...

 

I ride with 1 litre bottles (I buy mineral water in them.) They have a normal Coke type opening. So I put my powder in them before I ride. Then I have my filled bottles in the normal cages ( I use alluminium Topeak cages and bend them tighter) and then just fill the empty bottle with water at the waterpoint. The "dirty" bottles get thrown away. Manhatten Ice Tea make a good drinking spout that works great an the nornal coke screwtop. If you want to carry the extra weight in the seatpost cage, valcro straps is the answer.

[domenic]

Velcro straps and cable ties do not work well. Use clamps that are used for garden hoses that can be tightened properly.

[jacostrydom]

The velcro strap is not to fasten the cage to the seatpost. That is what the contraption that the tri-athletes use is for. The velcro strap is to put around the bottle and cage so as to stop the full bottle behind your sitvlak to pop out over the first bump in the jeeptrack.

[Marius]

omfg, just buy a Cambelbak, jeeeeesh!

[Velouria]

Seemed very popular in the Epic, from the pros down to us normal people. There were days I wished I had them, and not the hot and heavy Camelbak on my back...

[jacostrydom]

Much easier to throw the emty bottle in the dustbin than to wash all that energy mix out of a camelback